The pilot: a tale of the sea. By J. Fenimore Cooper.

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returnedl the cocIkswaill; -; "folr0 there xt,';: hut tntte
hand ftbrward, besilde th cattle I nrentiontcd-..th.iat
WflS itC, vho steeied....-.and ail easy birth he had of
it; for theire his cour1se lay'a-tween wtalls of stone,
and fIences; and, as f his reItckoning, why, thy~iey
had stutck olp bits of stotne on etnd, with his day's
woik!iotei tul), ready to his hand, every hatlf
le-atue or so, "B1esides the laun!d —marks were so
pilenty, that a man, with half-an-eye, inight steei
her, and no feair of getting- to leeward."
" You must have tfu.lnd yoursetllt, as;v it were in a
11w wOdit,'" lsevXd D1')illon.
Why, to me, it was pretty ouch thlte sate eas
if I hIad lbeen set alloat in a st.range coun.try,
thoughin I itial bIe said to be a native t,f t I hos):e
parts, b1ng hborn o:n the coast. I tadl oftfe heatd
shore-rn'cn say, that there was as mut.h'arthf
as wVater in the iortld, which I always set down'
as a rank ie, fbr I've sa!iled with a flowintg she. et
rmonths c an.-end, witho;t htiing in with tatstch
landt or roek as would answe ll s r al to lay its eggs
t.: -w,, - tx~.,.
onI; Int I wilil ow;n, that a-tfwEn Boston::1d~ l'f}Iy1t1otth, we wcre tfsigt ouit.:ot-siqlt f watr tfor as mll'ch
ats tw1o filt watteies!'
lDillton pur>ured thlis interesting snlhject with
rea't dilic tt and bv thle time they reached the
wall, which t.nclosed the large paladdockt tiat siun
rounded the Ahbhev, tlhe cockswain was, deepl,
involved in a lisctission of the c.omparative ranag
nittude of the:i Atlantic Oeean anidl the Ceontinent cf
Amnerica.
Avoiding the jprinciptl entrance to the I Ilh iinc,
through:J the, gtreat g;ates which c.mmiuniIa ted
witlth the court in front, lDillon followed the windings of thel wall''natil it. led themt to -a wickefft.:
which lhe:knew vwas >el':Idon, closed fotr the ni.,th.
until the lionsr lo, — I:,::r.w rcest had arrived. "l'Ieu